**Yanks on FR hate sweet tea and grits**
that was the most fun ... as a “””YANK””” walking in to a Waffle House, everyone there, of course, noticed immediately. They watched intently hoping to get a Laugh when the YANK tried Grits. So in my thickest Brooklyn Accent I could muster... “Wassamatta, Neva Seen a New Yahwkuh eat GRITS befouh??” Priceless
that was the most fun ... as a YANK walking in to a Waffle House, everyone there, of course, noticed immediately.
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As a New Yorker (without accent) I had the ‘chickory coffee’ experience in LA back when I was 19 and in the Navy. I ordered coffee black, got a strange look and was asked strong or mild. Being a New York/USN ‘know it all’, “Why STRONG, what do you think”. Wrong answer, but hardheaded me ended up drinking 3 cups of that ‘stuff’ that will show `em.
About the ‘Waffle House’ or ‘all night diner’, even today, in say GA or ALA - when you get (way) off the Interstate you are sure to draw out the local ‘night shift’ PD to ‘get an eye on that flatlander’ etc etc...
I was in Terrell County GA around 3AM and stopped in a local all night eatery wearing my USS Terrell County (LST1157) cap and became ‘quite the celebrity’ after much ‘questioning’ etc...the deputy (and diner) even ended up paying for my breakfast....